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A developer known for building “green” homes in tidy neighborhoods has proposed a subdivision of 26 small, highly efficient houses on six acres on Port Washington’s near south side.

A concept plan presented by Port resident Mike Speas, owner of Port Green Homes, to create what he called a “small, somewhat intimate subdivision with smaller homes” on land between South Division and South Wisconsin streets was recommended by the city’s Design Review Board Wednesday.

Speas said he plans to purchase the land, which is bisected by Western Avenue, from We Energies in January.

About 30 people were on hand last week for the dedication and ribbon cutting of two bike racks at Trail Bridge Park to honor Chris Kegel, a businessman, bicycling enthusiast and former Ozaukee County supervisor who was instrumental in development of the bike trail that winds its way through the length of the county.

Kegel, who died in February 2017 at the age of 63, was owner of retailer Wheel and Sprocket.

A 35-year-old man who was convicted of sexually assaulting a child in 2004 and is a registered sex offender was charged last week in Ozaukee County Circuit Court with raping a woman in the back of his van in Saukville.

James R. Stib of Oostburg, who is being held in the county jail in lieu of $75,000 bail, faces one felony count of second-degree sexual assault.

According to the criminal complaint, a woman told authorities that on Sunday, Sept. 30, she agreed to meet Stib, and that he picked her up and they went to McDonalds on Green Bay Avenue in Saukville to eat.

Five days after speeding away from an Ozaukee County sheriff’s deputy on I-43 at an estimated 130 mph, a 29-year-old man wanted by multiple law enforcement agencies was arrested Sunday, Sept. 30, at a Town of Grafton trailer home after he was seen passed out in his car, according to two criminal complaints charging him with multiple crimes.

Authorities found Matthew M. Buelow of Cedar Grove, who appeared to be on drugs, hiding under a sleeping bag in what they described as a filthy trailer home on North Port Washington Road, one of the complaints states.

The Port Wasahington Town Board is continuing its quest to purchase two properties next door to the town hall.

Supr. Mike Didier told the board Oct. 1 that he was forwarding a formal offer to purchase the properties at 3709 and 3703 Highland Dr. via a land contract to Town Atty. Steve Cain for review, after which the offer would be sent to the Gantner family for consideration.

The offer, Didier said, “is essentially the same offer as we originally submitted.”

A nonprofit organization’s plan to sink a freighter two miles off the mouth of the Port Washington harbor and sculptures created by area students off the breakwater met with mixed reaction from the Common Council Tuesday.

Although the city was asked to be a co-applicant with the Shipwreck Education and Preservation Alliance in its application for a Department of Natural Resources permit to place structures at the bottom of the lake, aldermen tabled action until their Wednesday, Nov. 7, meeting saying they had too many questions to make a decision Tuesday.